The constant scaling of AI applications and other digital technologies across industries is beginning to tax the energy grid ...

Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, announced a breakthrough in optical computing, published in Nature. The analog optical ...

Although computers are overwhelmingly digital today, there’s a good point to be made that analog computers are the more ...

Microsoft Research has developed an analog optical computer (AOC) that uses light to solve complex problems.

Unlike digital computers that crunch information in binary, the AOC embodies computations in physical systems. This avoids bottlenecks that slow down conventional chips and could make the system 100 ...

A new study indicates that a computer that uses light instead of digital switches for computation may help reduce the energy demands of artificial intelligence (AI). The scientists who invented this ...

A computer that uses light rather than digital switches for calculations could help reduce the energy demands of artificial ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hailed a research breakthrough as the company unveiled an analog optical computer built with smartphone parts that promises up to 100x faster, more energy-efficient problem ...

Microsoft’s Experimental Optical Computer Could Run AI Workloads With Less Energy Your email has been sent Research conducted by the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge could contribute to the ...

Arista executives discuss liquid-cooled networking gear and support for Linear Pluggable Optics to achieve power and cost ...

A recent prototype developed by Microsoft Research is exploring a non-electronic approach to computation by relying on ...